A Quick Update

For anyone following this string of posts, I mentioned earlier that I'd probably done too much too soon the other day when I started out barefoot for the first time and completed 3.8km.  Sure there were a few blisters.  Sure there was plenty of good reason to rest my feet a bit...

Well, today I ran/walked for what my GPS tells me is 17.7km, (approximately 11 miles, and only two shy of my 13mile goal!) and was barefoot for around 14 of those km! (the remaining were done wearing Vibram FiveFinger KSOs).  Are my feet a bit sore... yes.  Do they hurt... not really.  I thinBk they're tired, and the deserve to be.  I am more or less forcing them into performing tasks that, thought they were designed to do, they have been left deprived of.  There are muscles in my foot that were living the easy life until today!  Today, they pull their weight!

The weather was brilliant, although a tad hot nearing the end of our run. (Flash accompanied me dutifully!)  There's something really exhilarating about running barefoot through the trees with a dog.   Fun times!

Now I believe I definitely deserve my nap in the Hammock!  I've got to get that distance up over 20km sooner than later!